Hockey Tape and Carpet Spot Cleaner

I was reading Frosty's latest blog entry (see blogroll for link) regarding the passing of his computer chair and it occurred to me I forgot to mention my own chair issue which occurred a few weeks ago.

I'm still using the same chair I purchased in 2008 a few months after I started this blog and took up online poker. I even blogged about the purchase back then. It has been a very good chair to me. A few weeks back after what I can only assume was something of a bad beat I stood up and quickly dropped down harder than normal into my chair, at which point one of the wheel bottomed legs broke at the wheel. For those that don't know me, I am not anywhere close to being a heavy individual so this was something of a surprise. That aside, this event obviously did not make me happy, and to make matters worse the broken wheel distributed grease onto the rug underneath it.

Fortunately for me however, two products came to the rescue. Growing up in Canada, a great many children - boys in particular, learn very quickly just about any problem can be solved with hockey tape. I rarely play hockey days, but still keep hockey tape well stocked in the house not for its intended purpose, but because it is awesome at just about everything. While the broken chair leg no longer rolls, it is solid as a rock being held together by nothing more than hockey tape.

The carpet grease stain was similarly easy to remedy. I'm still a fairly recent home owner - it's been just over two years since I bought my house. Early on in my home owning experience I discovered that carpet stain removers actually work (the first major stain I had to deal with was my girlfriend exploding a pen on the carpeting, which is pretty close to worst case scenario!). While they may not work entirely flawlessly, given the difficulty of the job they have, you would expect a cheap supermarket solution to be half assed at best - yet the results are anything but. I have in the past described the effectiveness of the product as witchcraft, but I'm certainly thankful it is as useful as it is.

Not much to report in terms of poker over the past two days. I had a pretty awful short session yesterday, followed by an absolutely not awful half hour session today where after ~600 hands of close to $1/hand poker I elected to hit and run for a couple reasons.

Tomorrow I get to drive my parents to the airport for the second time in ~20 hours as their flight today was cancelled but the airline didn't bother emailing or phoning them. Just. Not. Acceptable. After I get home I've got a coaching session scheduled, and then on Wednesday my girlfriend and I will heading down to the 'Dome to watch the Flames take on the Oilers in a game that is hopefully still meaningful, pending the results of whichever of the Ducks/Blackhawks/Stars are in action tomorrow.